Being a personal trainer for quite some time now, I've helped dozens of clients with their fitness and health goals.  I've had my clients achieve their goals, and helped them maintain.  I've also had clients who have struggled to reach their goals and they couldn't seem to figure out why. It's my job to help give my clients a path to follow to achieve their health/weight loss/fitness goals.  It's a lot of work, but I love it.  I do consultations with my clients, find out where they need help, I make the workout program, get them working on their nutrition, if they do in person I schedule sessions with them, if they are online I check in multiple times per week, schedule check-in phone calls, update their training programs, etc, etc.   However, I have discovered much to my dismay, although I put in a lot of effort and work on my end to help my clients work towards their goals, I cannot force people to do the work on their end.  I cannot force my cli...

Postpartum is quite an interesting journey that one cannot really know about until they experience it.  In Part 1, I wrote about my personal experience with labor and delivery ( HERE for part 1) and now I wanted to talk about my experience with postpartum after we brought our girl home.  Really at the time I write this, we are barely 8 weeks into our postpartum journey, and still, have so long to go. We were released from the hospital on Thursday, August 15th the day after Anna was born.  We were so anxious to get her home, but the funny part was once we got home, all I could think was now what ?!  What do I do with this baby?!  I was so tired from only having maybe 2 hours of combined sleep since Tuesday and so emotional from hormones, and everything else.  I mean, who's idea was it to just send us home with a child?  Don't they know I know absolutely nothing about babies?!   I've heard many times that when you have a baby, instinc...